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...Newcomer Giorgio Bulgari used coral cabochons in his Giorgio B collection that launched in 2023. “It’s a deep red Mediterranean coral,” he says....
...Reviewers compared him to Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and John Irving. But Hill is very much his own man. If The Nix is a tough act to follow, Wellness proves he’s got the chops....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Twentieth Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard by Christopher Wallace. I always loved his art, I just hadn’t realised he was such a complex character....
...B-7) who “sometimes gets ahead of himself.” (Exh. B-8)....
...J Schatz stoneware Egg birdhouse, $265 Giorgio B rose-gold, diamond, coral and enamel Goccia ring, POA. Qui est Paul?...
...“B&Q sells everything from houseplants to fitted kitchens and everything in between. What you tend to find is consumer behaviour can switch within categories....
...Space-age design II Up 1 (1969) Created by Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia, this vacuum-packed foam chair came flat....
...Kingfisher also ranked among the top payers, offering store workers at its B&Q retail chain a 9.8 per cent pay rise after increases in April and December....
...This has led to a situation where many trusts are in desperate need of additional beds, often with precious little notice....
...Across town, defence secretary Ben Wallace speaks at a conference organised by defence and security think-tank Rusi US: President Joe Biden begins Investing in America tour of the country to tout his administration...
...As master carver Wallace Chan says: “The stone itself is attractive, but the stories that come with it are part of its identity and fascination....
...“If you live in a city and want to get from A to B, you don’t need a car,” said de Ros Wallace, arguing that even a premium bike was “cheaper, more sustainable, you don’t pay insurance and you can park it...
...From a menu of about 100 items (including noodles, rice, simmered and pan-fried dishes), I also pick Grill Set B so I can sample the yakitori....
...The Tory right aren’t buying Sunak’s plan B, are they?...
...When I need to feel inspired, I meditate or go to The Wallace Collection in Marylebone: that’s my little hideaway. I walk around The Wallace Collection on my own quite a lot. It’s amazing in there....
...Names it records have been carefully hand-picked by artisan paralegals from public documents including FTX’s series B, B1 and C funding round announcements....
...And so she nurtured a precious cuttings garden in tandem with the full-sized plants. Meanwhile, as the hedges grew, she shaped them. And topiary began to emerge from the larger plants....
...The report authors are diplomatically circumspect about the B word, but like Banquo’s ghost it haunts any initiative to rehabilitate the City as a global financial centre....
...In a sign of the deepening crisis, Fitch on Tuesday downgraded Bolivia’s debt deeper into junk territory, assigning it a B minus rating with a negative outlook....
...And probably most people should be holding a little bit of precious metals in their portfolio. Claer Barrett Even if it’s just a smidgen. We haven’t mentioned the B-word yet. Bonds....
...Today, that currency is increasingly tied to luxury brands, with buyers signalling status and exclusivity through recognisable branding, rather than precious materials....
...As you can tell, she’s aware that this whole world of food and drinks can quickly turn into something a bit too precious. But she’s not precious or preoccupied with trends or making things perfect....
...I went a few years ago and it impressed me so much – the palaces filled with precious and vibrant things, the elegant saris… and all that colour!...
...In Vienna, the alchemist jeweller Thomas Hauser of Atelier Allure spent a year exploring how to master Niellium, a tough, precious alloy that is mystically black....
...“It’s about me challenging the idea of designing something so precious that you are very afraid of what is going to happen to it,” he says....
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